Xosophara marleyi

Author 2

Distant, 1908

Description 2

Vertex, pronotum, and scutellum pale greenish-yellow; four small rounded spots on basal area of veries, four rounded spots on pronotum-two on disk and one on each lateral area-and ten similar spots on mesonotum-six at base, partly concealed by posterior margin of pronotum, and two on each lateral margin-black; pronotum greenish-yellow, about basal half and two central spots on apical half, shining, resplen dent black; body beneath and legs pale greenish-yellow; anterior and intermediate tarsi black, posterior tarsal claws black; tegmina pale greenish-yellow, with obscure darker suffusions, the veins on basal half more or less virescent: wings pale greenish- yellow, subhyaline; vertex shorter than breadth between eyes, the lateral and apical margins reflexed, rounded in front; face flat, tessellate, very finely and slightly granulose, the lateral and apical margins reflexed; rostrum reaching and very slightly passing the posterior coxe. Long, exel. tegm. 20 millim. Exp. tegm. 48 millim.

Han-Natal; Durban (Bell-Marley: Coll. Dist.).

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